Work Situation

Chucky,

Man I love you. You've got a lot of pent up agression. Your situation sounds all too common unfortunately in American companies today. Inevitaable there are useless, nardowells, who usually end up in senior management doing, well God knows what? While the compotent people stay at the bottom rung doing all the work. I learned a long time ago that working in a corporate setting is not a meritocracy. It's basically anarchy where the rules are arbitrary doesn't really matter what your skills are as opposed to who you know and whose butt you kiss. I rarely find any senior management that actually knows a). what their subordinates do, b)., how to do what they do, c). how to innovate and lead. Yet there they are running things.

P.S. Laughed out loud the last choice as I assumed it was a joke, although I'd seek counseling if I were you and you REALLY wanted to do that!

People get promoted when management doesn't know what to do with them. The firing process is long and tedious (to avoid future lawsuites) and they'd rather just wait him out till he gets tired and quits.... As for you my friend, you've already wasted enough energy on this loser... funny energy, but energy.  I get worked up too at work, but then I realize, if it doesn't effect me and/or I can't do anything about it, I leave it alone.

Loved the last option!!

That manager's behavior was textbook bad leadership and mismanagement. The fact that The Loser was promoted speaks poorly for the overall situation too. The promotion was someone's decision and it's highly unlikely that they're going to either come to their senses or admit that they made a bad mistake.

Your friend needs to get out from under the Loser and you need to turn your back on the situation. It sounds like the politics are decidely with the Loser for now.

Hmm.. I sense politics here.  If he were to be fired, the boss didn't want to be responsible.  If enough people raised their hands, the boss can eaily said "hey, ChuckyFinster and the gang thought the same way too....."

--DK

Sounds like a crappy situation.  Best not to make waves.  You never know if the guy has pictures of the boss, or is dating his daughter, or maybe he helps the boss keep the budget under the "salary cap".  Who knows?

I worked for a manufacturing company that had a rather clueless worker.  When the company was bought out, he got promoted to "plant manager".  So he came walking by one day and my friend said "hey Ken, the plants in my office need watering."

Edited by Gatsby 2005-05-03 9:35 AM

Is it possible that this looser was promoted to keep him from filing some kind of suit for the boss having a group discussion about his performance and possible termination?  Kind of throw him a bone to keep him quiet?  I know that if my work performance was discussed between my coworkers and my boss, and it was voted on as to my future employment status, I would put the bosses nuts thru the HR wringer!  And...to echo what has already been said, your boss could use just a wee bit of management training.

John